Ann Sunstein Kheel, a civic leader and environmentalist whose posts included chairwoman of the State Parks Commission for the City of New York, died on Sunday at Columbia-Presbyterian Center in Manhattan, her family said. She was 88 and lived in...

December 31, 2003, Wednesday

Still Making Deals At a Different Table Years back, Theodore W. Kheel helped settle so many big and bitter labor disputes in New York and around the country that he was widely regarded as the maestro of mediation.

To the Editor: A Nov. 24 editorial says that Larry Silverstein, who leased the World Trade Center last summer, ''will have a dominant voice'' in rebuilding the necessary office space ''not least because he will soon command billions of dollars in...

Some Hard Words About Soft Money For the second time in two months, the labor negotiator THEODORE W. KHEEL has offered to mediate the issue of the largely unregulated campaign contributions known as soft money in the race for the United States...

Mediation Offer Is Politely Refused THEODORE W. KHEEL, the negotiator, has ventured into the capricious world of campaign finance, offering to mediate a dispute between HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON and MAYOR RUDOLPH W. GIULIANI. But not even a labor...

For more than a year, Theodore W. Kheel has boasted about the unusual town house he was planning to build on the East Side of Manhattan: it would house several foundations, and it would be heated by energy deep in the ground. He has already dug...